Vista RC1 upgrade of XP Home

[Guest]

Attempting to upgrade XP Home. ISO file extracted directly to hard drive
because this computer does not have a DVD Drive. The installation "hung"
after getting about 80% complete. No error messages. Just hung for over 8
hours. Rebooted PC and XP was reloaded automatically.

Hard drive: is 40 gig with only 1 partition.
PC: Dell Dimension 1.4GHZ Intel CPU 512 RAM

Any suggestions on how to determine what the problem is? The pre
installation check only reported one problem related to the network
adapater/driver.

 

[Guest]

I'm having the same problem, I tried the ISO direct to hard drive install but
at around 80-90% just got hung and my monitor became de-activated giving me
just a black screen. I waited 20 minutes to no avail and then restarted with
a roll-back to my previous windows XP. Then I tried to install the 32-bit
version using the CD I ordered from Microsoft and the precise same thing
happened. It goes all the way to about 85% and then just sort of crashes,
de-activating my display again and forcing me to restart manually.

My system is a Windows XP SP2 with 940 Gigs of HDD space, 2G Ram, 3.46GHZ,
with Dual Nvidia SLI Graphics cards. I can't possibly imagine what's going
on. I successfully installed Vista on another Notebook computer I have with
hardly the same characteristics.

What gives??????? I'm thinking that I'll have the same problem with the
official public release version.

 

[Guest]

Same problem with my Presario 2500 (Intel P 4M; 1GB RAM; 40 GB HD)! Started
upgrading Vista from CD normally and whet it reaches about 80% of the total
download scale it stops and no changes for 10+ hours! I have another laptop
Presario R3000 (Athlon XP-M; 1GB RAM; 40 GB HD) and it worked perfectly for
this machine. Any suggestions would be more than welcome.

 

[Guest]

Anyone else have any suggestions?? The pre-install check reported that my
Video Card was fine, so I doubt my problem is a Video issue.

I tried the install again last night, and it hung at the exact same place as
it did before? Is there a log generated so that we can determine what its
trying to do at the time of the failure????

 

[V McGhee]

I'm having the same problem, I tried the ISO direct to hard drive install
but
at around 80-90% just got hung and my monitor became de-activated giving
me
just a black screen. I waited 20 minutes to no avail and then restarted
with
a roll-back to my previous windows XP. Then I tried to install the 32-bit
version using the CD I ordered from Microsoft and the precise same thing
happened. It goes all the way to about 85% and then just sort of crashes,
de-activating my display again and forcing me to restart manually.

My system is a Windows XP SP2 with 940 Gigs of HDD space, 2G Ram, 3.46GHZ,
with Dual Nvidia SLI Graphics cards. I can't possibly imagine what's going
on. I successfully installed Vista on another Notebook computer I have
with
hardly the same characteristics.

What gives??????? I'm thinking that I'll have the same problem with the
official public release version.

Theoretically you shouldn't have any problem.
Practically NVIDIA is not the favorite of Vista..-
at this of Beta stage RC2.

 

[Guest]

Hello??? Anyone from Microsoft out there and reading this board? How bout
some pointers on how to debug this install? What's a guy suppose to do when
the install just locks up without any Error message????

 

[JW]

It locked up since you are trying to use the XP OS to run the Vista OS
installation and the Vista intallation is probably writing on top of the XP
OS disk driver so and therfore it can't continue.
You need to install from a DVD drive

 

[Theo]

You need to either buy and install a DVD drive or buy and
install another hard drive and put the .ISO on the hard
drive you are not installing Vista to.

You can purchase a new DVD burner for less than$40.00!

 

[Theo]

No! This is not a Microsoft tech support portal. It is a
peer-to-peer forum. If any from Microsoft responds to
posts, it is on their own time and in an unofficial capacity.

 

[Guest]

Hmm, interesting theory, except every previous OS UPGRADE works the same
way... Start Windows 95 to Install Windows 98, start 98 to install XP, etc.
I surely hope Microsoft isnt taking a step backwards in its customer
friendliness.

 

[Guest]

Good idea to copy the files to another hard drive.... might be able to do
that without any outlay of cash...however.. Question: will I be prompted
where I want to put Vista, or will it know to go to the C drive?